Binder for books, journals, paper, music, &amp;c.



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APILIOATIOI IXLBD IUIB 29, 190'.

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Witnesses:

lnyentor 2 I 4 W. PEIN. BINDER ron BOOKS, JOUENALS, Puma, uusw, aw. APPLIOATIOI FILED IBIS 29, 190i.

' 899,066, Patented Sept. 22, 190?. 4 I 5 lHBETI-SHBBT Q.

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PATENT OFFICE.

BINDER FOR BOOKQJOUENAH, PAPER, MUSIC, to.

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To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, WIIJJAM Plant, a citi- Zen of the United States and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook, in the State a of Ilhnois, have invented certain new and useful 1m rovements in Binders for Books, Journals, nper, Music, &c.; and I do hereby declare that the following descriptlon of my said invention, taken in connection with the accom anying sheets of drawings, forms a full, 0 ear, and enact specification, which will'enable others skilled 1n the art to which it a pertains to make and use the same.

. 's invention has general reference to 1mprovements in binder; for books, periodicals, sheet-music, papers, glocuments, catalogues, &c., and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combmationof parts and'details of construction as hereinafter first fully set forth and described and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate this invention more fully, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a book '25 bound with my improved binder. Fig. 2 is a plan of one of the pre ared leaves, signa ture's or sections of whidh the book is com posed; Fi 3 is an end-elevation of the same part y in section. Fi 4 is a la-n of $0 the s est-metal blank whic when ormed as shown in Fig. 5, constitutes the guide and retainer for the leaves, &c. Fig. 5 is an endelevation, partly in section, of the device, the leaves, &c., being removed Fig. 6 is a as rear-elevation of the book with its cover removed, art-1y broken away to disclose some of the etai'ls of construction. Fig. 7 is a plan of fragment of a book, music-roll, &c., and Figs: 8 and'9 are end-elevations of the 40 same'.

Like arts are designated by correspondingflslym ols of reference in all the figures. e object of this invention is th'eproduction of an eflicient, serviceable, and durable binder for papers, books, periodicals sheetthat can and a sheet-metal guide-piece G, the latter Specification of Lanai-uremia Application mu. :m as, me. Berle] in. one.

own, it is deemed un-' Patented 80112.99, 100a.

being shown in detail in 4 and also in all other figures excepting g, 3. These retainers are securely fastened to the back C by nails, screws, or other suitable means of fastening, glue, the. The sheet-metal guideG is of across-shaped contour the niembers or portions 9 of which have rounded corners a for t e urpose hereinafter to be referred to, there a 88 number of hols 'b, for the passage of nails, screws, 880., d to securely fasten this sheetmetal-guide-piece G to the base-piece Fiasillustrated in Fig. 5. The base-piece F is preferably made of 10 wood and itj is of rectangular contour of which one face is preferably curved as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, and this face is provided' with a series of oovesff, to receive lockingbars H, aswill ereina ter more fully be re- I5 'ferred to.

The blank for thesheet-metal guide-piece G is bent along the dotted linesfh into a semicircular form and then bent at right angles along the dotted lines i so that its final contour is clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 9, the semi-circular portions forming one-half of a socket at the ends of the base-piece F, the other half being formed by grooves 7', at the ends of said base iece. 4

The base-piece is of the same width as the members or portions 9' of the uide G so that, when the latter is secur to' the former, the portions 9 g pro'ect beyond the base-piece u illustrated in I' ig. 6.

In order to properly bind a book pamphlet, catalogue, &c., the individual eaves, signatures or sections are each notched, as shown in Fig. 2 b a note or excision a, which notch is so tantially T-shap ed so that the portion 7: embraces the base and the portions 7: the projecting endsg g of the ,retamer when these sections, &c. are placed into position for binding and they are prevented from being withdrawn bv the pottions 7: of the sections e ing behind the pro'ec'ting port-ions g .of tlie retaining plate an uideiece, G. I W en a 0k is-to be permanently bound -I use a base-piece F having a flat face as shown in Fig. 5, and I may also use a iatbase-picce F when temporarily bin por-' tions of a book, periodical, journal, 800., but whenever the paper oi which the hook is composed is of a cheaper allow of removal and einsertion without in jury to the lips on the excisions e of the ads which would not offer-Lire, and in Figs. 7, S, and. t). I have shown such a construction. In this case I also use llexihlc covers so as ndt to injure the music-reek or pianos, organs and ther in strumcnts, which racks are usually highly poli rih d and are liable to St'l'ttlCht'S. &c-.

1 when a stiff-covered hook is used thereon.

\This construction enables the sheets to lie ttttlliy perfectly ilat especially so if the sevcral leaves of a piece of sheet-musicarc sep- -':ll 'tli((l and each leaf reinforced by the rein- Forbes I and then attu hcd to the retainers l), and when but a limited number of sheets are temporarily bound into this binder. This lntte. l'e:it\u'e of my invcnlion is-an especially i-csirable one since a. musician can turn his mu re heets |lcl\i and be assured that wh n turned it- \\'ill iimnediately lic llat.

When a jnn'ii'tbcr of sheets, signatures, or se tions arej-pl'accd into position in this hinder. the rods ll'arc pushed into t he sockets or grooves f iiithc base-piece and thereby the sheets, &c., securely held in position, there bein; a series oI these grooves so that. the rods ll may be plated close to these leaves, sections, &c., and'hold theni securely in position. 7

It is evident that for permanently binding books, the. base-pieces F'with their sheetmclnl guide-pieces (i a re made to correspond with the thickness of the book, a nuitte'r which will be readily understood by poisons skilled in the arts to which my invention appert u i ns.

In order that the sheets, signatures and sections of :i book may be readily placed corners of the projectingportions g y of the .iicccs orcrla Jill" t to base- )ieeee' a series.

upon the retainers, I have rounded ulI theocing projecting members of said guide- )icces'cxtcmling beyond the edges of said Jase-pieces.

2. A binder for books, pain hlets, &c.,-

eonsisting, essentially, of two lexihly'connc-etcdcorers; base-piecessecuredto the hack of the covers, there being a series of grooves in the face of said base-piece; sheet-metal l0 guide-pieces, secured to the face of said lmsepiece, there being projecting portions of said vguide-pieces over apping the b. e-pieees;

and a series of sheets, signatures andtsections, there being T-shaptid notches in said sheets, signatures and sections adapted to engage the base pieces and thc;' gu depieces.

3. A hinder for books, pmnphlets, 0., consisting, essentially, of two tlexihlyjoi xtso ed covers: base-pieces secured to the buck f the covels, said base-piece having a curv d upper surface, there being a series grooves in said curved surface; sheet-meta guidepieces secured to said IHISO-PIOCQSQ-ES5 there being project in" portions of'said guide of sheets. signatures, and sections, there being T-shapetl notches in the edges of said sheets, signatures and sections adapted to 9 engage the base-pieces and the guidepieees;- and rods passed through stud notches in the base-pieces close to the outermost sections, &c. o the book.

In testimony that; I chum the foregoing as my invention I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. PEIN.

Attestt.

.IlClIAl-ZL J. STARK, )hrnam. J. STARK. Ju. 

